July 10, 2016 (Delta, BC) – Ryan Roth lists a burger, fries, and shake as his favourite food in his bio on the Silber Pro Cycling website, so perhaps it’s extremely appropriate that he won the White Spot | Delta Road Race on Sunday. The BC-based restaurant has long been a supporter of the Tour de Delta and is famous the world over for its legendary burger.

No word on whether or not the 32-year-old from Kitchener, Ontario indulged after the race, but Roth certainly had a lot to celebrate after breaking away and cruising across the finish line 10.4 seconds ahead of Canadian National Road Race Champion Bruno Langlois and two-time White Spot | Delta Road Race winner Steve Fisher.

“I had fantastic legs today and I really wanted to be in the breakaway, so I went all in on that early and it didn’t work and then it didn’t work again, but luckily it played out pretty well,” beamed Roth after finishing the 12 lap, 155.4 kilometre trek.

The race had a unique feel as it saw a massive group of riders go off at the beginning, and Roth’s Silber team had some representation in the break, including Elliot Doyle who won Friday’s MK Delta Lands Criterium, and just decided to jump across at that point.

“There was a few of us, but we didn’t panic, we had two guys up there in that group, including some speed with Elliot,” explained Roth, who is a former Canadian National Road Race Champion himself. “We really wanted to have three instead of two, just to have better numbers and luckily Will Routley and I, and a few of us guys bridged across and from there it was like ‘chop it down’ and play out the finish.”

With this being the third year with UCI designation for the White Spot | Delta Road Race, the calibre of cycling just continues to improve. Roth makes no bones about the fact that his team was here to get the valuable UCI points.

“The UCI points are really important. For this week, it was the biggest objective for me because of the points. We want to try and win the UCI America Tour and the points really help us with invitations to the bigger tours like the Tour of California and races like that in the future,” he said.

For 37-year-old veteran Langlois of Team Garneau Quebecor, the red maple leaf on the Canadian National Road Race Champion might as well have been a target because there’s extra attention and motivation that goes along with it.

“When you get that jersey, you have to show that you deserve it. I’m happy to have the jersey and I wear it pretty proudly. That’s why I attacked so much, that’s why I went up the road, to give 110 percent to represent my country and that jersey, so today that’s what I did. I got second and that’s okay, Ryan was just stronger than me today,” said Langlois, who lists hunting and fishing as two of his interests outside of cycling.

Being from Bellingham, Washington, Fisher is pretty close to calling the White Spot | Delta Road Race a hometown course. It’s only an hour’s drive for Fisher and he’s also won the race twice – in 2012, and the first year it received UCI designation, in 2013. There’s just something about riding in Tsawwassen that clicks with the 26-year-old, even if he can’t quite put his finger on it.

“It’s hard to say, I’m happy to have a team here this time so I can do this road race – I missed the last two years. It was pretty on from the start today and found myself in the right place again so I’m happy about that,” he said, admitting that he was hoping for a sprint at the end. “I think my chances in a sprint are pretty good among that group, but Ryan and Bruno were both riding very strong today so I’ve got to hand it to Ryan for going away when he did. He was clearly the strong man and deserved the win.”

Laval, Quebec’s Joelle Numainville continued her dominance at the Tour de Delta Sunday as she sprinted to win the White Spot | Delta Road Race for her third straight win to start BC Superweek. Numainville, who also won Saturday’s Brenco Criterium and Friday’s MK Delta Lands Criterium, rode the eight lap, 103.6 kilometre UCI race as a member of a composite team alongside fellow Canadian Ashley Barson, New Zealanders Hannah van Kampen and Elizabeth Steel, and Aussie Shannon Malseed.

“It was a pretty big gap, but I knew the last climb was coming up and I knew I had to be my best there,” said Numainville, who is without her usual Cervelo Bigla Pro Cycling teammates.

Just as she did following Friday and Saturday’s wins, the two-time Canadian national road race champion reiterated that she came to BC Superweek with the goal of just riding well and letting the chips fall where they may.

“I just came here with the most important thing in my mind being how I race, I’ve raced aggressive and I’m just happy that I won it,” Numainville, 28, exclaimed. “What a day here at the Tour de Delta! I really like coming here and I hope to be here next year for sure!”

After the two wins Numainville had to start BC Superweek, Bergen, Jackson, and the rest of the field were well aware of the damage she could do.

“Joelle’s a very strong and aggressive rider, she’s a great sprint, so we had already committed to the break so I was pulling as hard as I could, I really wanted that to stick,” said Bergen. “She’s fast! It was a great race for everyone.”

“The break was steady and when it got to that climb late in the race, I could see that Joelle was bridging with a teammate, so not ideal for us in that breakaway,” added Jackson. “She bridged up and was working, so we just gauged her effort and hoped to beat her in the end.”

A Vermillion, Alberta native, Jackson is a familiar face at BC Superweek with four top ten finishes in 2015. The strategy for she and her Team Canada teammates was to rely on the strength of Stephanie Roorda, who was third on Saturday and second on Friday..

“We weren’t even looking for me to be our finisher because Steph is riding really well already in the Tour de Delta. She won the bunch sprint today for sixth. It just so happened it was in the right move and we were in a break of girls who were willing to work, so we kept that going and tried to get a win out of it.”

Bergen made her second straight podium appearance at BC Superweek after a second place result on Saturday, and she’s got her eye on growing her profile in the cycling world.

“Definitely over the next couple of years, I know next season I’d like to ride with a professional team in North America. I really like to expand my races to the North American circuit and bridge into Europe.”